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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1882-08-03, Page 4li¢tu " tluerta~52iutnt5 Scto Jackson. o li tweed tti'n s T .Ja g Who s your hatter -4Y Jackson. Bicycle for sale Box A, Waterloo. Rouse for sale—New Era office. Sewing machines=O�,,..,,,,ECtraw,ford. Farm for sale- -James"Bio vplee. House•for sale--.John-Callander. Farm for sale—Mrs. E. Grant; Teas—P. Robb, Servant :wantecl=bars. S. Wilson.. Clinton gm On. THURSDAY,, AtTG. 3, 1882. AAIENDING TAR ELECTION:. -ACT, In, a long letter to the Mail, Ma: S. Blackburn, returning officer .for •,West Middlesex, who, by the way, is a thorough Conservative, snakes some good sugges- r improving the ballot; act, tions for. imp o „ and g sinP lifY in the 'manner of voting, so that there would' be less likelihood of ballots being spoiled oiled than there is at, present. After making . other suggestions, he says: "It is certainly an anomaly that, because a deputy -returning urnin officer neglects to place his initials on the back -of the ballot paper, ,or omits to detachthe counterfoil, or ignorantly places the voter's number on the back of the ballot, the voter should therefore be disfran- chised when isfran-ohised-whentheballots. are cosseted. But the law is clear on these points, and thepro- er wayto remedy' these defects is to amend helaw. The. reason why; the deputy is re- t 'spired lace hisinitials on the back of the brei P ballot ,paper and the voter's number on ,the counterfoil is, of course, to -assure the identity of the allot. b Ilot. I now propose another method of effecting the same object, which 1' will de - 'scribe. First,• then, de away -with the coun- terfoil which is "a.useles`s absurdity.', Second- ly, let the ballot paper be prepared ready for the deputy returning officer, so that he shall q not be required to place any initials or num- bers thereon. On: the voter being identified and admitted-tovote, the''deputy should-sioa ply hand him a ballot paper ready for mark- ing; the deputy t : would', have nothing to do with the ..ballot other than, officially to hand to and receive it back from the voter.` : The plan I would 'adopt is as follows :' The Clerk of the .Crown in Chancery to- sup- ply the .returning; officer of;each electoral i, , p, division vvith,a die: or Beal slam on 'which there is the :figure ;of a crown about the size of a five or ten -cent piece. `These seal stamps may be of a uniform size and pattern, so as to answer for any electoral district.. After the nomination, and when the returning -offi- cer hasreceived tile ballots from the, printer, it shall be hisduty to stamp or impress on the back of each- ballot paper this figure of a crown. He will then count -the ballot papers into packages of 150 or 200, as the case may be, and hand them 'to- o• the I,: different, deputies . a who hold the polls."Now; as no person w0u14 have access to this stamp or seal but there-. turning officer himself, it would be impossible for angone to counterfeit a. ballot paper. The Y would have to. account for, deputy, of course, won the ballotPsP ers he has received in his State-_ •ments thus :— • ballots •received, '.' ..:..200 Total ..., Votes for Roo, • 92 Notes for Doe, . ..... .78 Rejected ballots, 2 Spoiled ballots; .: 0 Unused and returned, , , - .`28 After the election the seal stamp wont returned to Ottawa for safe keeping till the next occasion. '.I suppose . that the cost of m __. these etiawps and';resa would not exceed $1 or $8 each and they would be available for many years. We see no reason why this method could not be adopted, ,as it would simplify vot' ing materially. , But there :is another evil; that should: be remedied, and, that is::in what are termed `• spoiled ballots:a For instance when a man marks his ballot for either candidate, if he happens to put his. cross on the name of the candidate,; that t is spoiled. Now wh should it be':? hallo p Y The simplefact of the name being marked should not invalidate the ,vote., During late election man of the ballots the 1•t Y thrown . out as .spoiled simply' had . the name of candidate touch- ed by one of the ,strokes: of . the cross. Now if the law was amended to allow: all such to be counted, there would not be room for the suspicion that good ballots' were purposely thrown out to lessen the total number of votes' polled for that can- didate. Thereis ' r considerable room for improvement: in the election -law, and we other imper- fections the foregoing and•o. hope that g g ;r will he, remedied ere auothe general election. WEST diUIi. oN :E7.IsCTIO, Some of the C onservatives of this Rid -- Archbishop Croke has advised Irishmen TFEE IIAItvEST. not to emigrate. Archbishop . Croke- is a That which concerns the public most at which blind „nide, and to disobeyl"m would be the pxesent time is- what shall11The }ma- sa .set of wisdom. r gest be?" and many surmises are indulged -+;"4+- in as' a solution of the inquiry. Great ex - The Coaticoke cotton factory, only ,afew pectations have been formed of the har- vest in the United States, where a much larger acreage was sown than formerly. Much of the wheat crop has already been gathered, except in the extreme Northwest, and all is expected to be secured in fine condition. r It is confidently '; predicted that the crop will amount to 500,000,000 bushels, the greatest in the historyof the country. As it requires but 250 000 000 Y 9 , , bushels to feed the home population and sow next year's crop, half of this year's. product will be available for export. 'In 1880 England imported 67,500,000 bushels of American wheat, her annual require - `anent being equire-°ment'being 200,000,000 bushels, 83,500,000 months old, has made 43a per cent on its capital in half a year—or an, anuuandivi dend of' 86 per cent. From' this some idea may formed of the enormous profits protected industries' make out of the' people, S. irChas. Tupper has just completed ar- rangements a company <in•New Yo -k a P Y to construct a line of railway in ; Nova Scotia. Another instance of how Canada is kept for the Canadians. Of course there are no capitalists in the Dominion who could construct a line of railway. Such a thingas. a man dying of starve- f sheraises herself in' an average o which i tion in Canada does not seemossible P year. It may trouble our neighbors to yet a man was found in Toronto, last week: death apparently ar ntl� due'to''this whose e th:was pp e ys cause. He may certainly have been "too , ,. proud to beg and too"honest. o steal,'but that is .scarcely a reason why a man should knowinglydie for want of sornething to eat,. especially as he was about 70 years of age.. The ' Council of Brussels have done a mighty mean act in getting their voter's liseprintedat Seaforth, apparently for the only; reason that a spite was held -against the Post. Any printing " office$aY that' s 'taxes in a place, and does what it can to advance the interestsof that place;: should be encouraged by the peoplethereof, but, unfortunatelYy, there are a`few persons in , I?. other -places as-well-as,.Brussels _that_, send.. P , `away for their, printing notwithstanding ing met at Uoderich, on-1V%iidays wafts - H -is said, the result of the meeting ,was ade- cision to protest the election of Mr.'Catne- ron on the grounds of personal bribery and bribery by agents. May we repeat what we have said before, viz that if the chargesagainst him are no more reliable than those said to be 'gathered in .this town, they will not succeed in even un- seating him, let alone -the disqualification, b 1 Conservatives seem to : The Gon think the Reformers are dreadfully afraid of a pro- test andof their doings being examined in court, but Reformers are not of that material. They are quite willing and ready to face the music when called upon to do so. One thing we think the can assure our Conservative -friends --snip that is that the fur will fly 'in an opposite di- rection to what they anticipate. Not only was money offered to voters by .censer- vatii here, but a good many in Gode rich ,nwnship voted fraudtrlentlyrapcl whoa a protest is entered they will be given anopportunity of explaining in curt some of the methods by whichthey hoped to beat Cameron. As soon as the Conservatives succeed in 'raising their $1,000, to guarantee costs- in the case, we may hear some more about the Matter, but it is only bluff and bluster so far. The money, so far as we can learn, had notbeen raised-upJto..Tuesday noon; but a journey among the faithful may be successful -,it may also be otherwise: the fact that it can' be done fullY as cheap- ly ly and well at home. A very -largely" attended R. C. picnic was held at Goderich last Thursday, the most exciting event in connection there- with being a contest: for a gold headed cane, . between Col. Ross and Mr. F. W. - Johnston. • When the poll closed the. vote . stood -Ross, ;987; Johnston, -748 ; giving the Col. a majority of 239, and, of course, the cane, whichwas handed him by Rev. Fr. Waters:: We attach no signifi- cance to ignificanceto contests of this kind, but had Mr. Johnston :come out ahead his supporters would have termed: it "the hand writing on the wall," &c.,` because that's their. habit:• m..- -. An,American paper is of opinion that the price of beef cattle will soon decline, owing to the fact that large numbers from the :Western plains are being sent forward to market -The price,-ot:course,..haasitnply- beeri'kept'up bythe demand being greater than the supply,: and as ivany Canadian cattle have hitherto found''e market rnV Ainericau cities, the,, increased supply will affect` prices here as. well ,'as elsewhere, though perhaps not quite to the saine extent, . and our farmers should govern themselves accordingly, During the sea- son,' which ends about November 1;' the Chicago Tribune calculates that the, mar-, ket:will :probably receive not leas than 175,000 head of plains cattle, and• as the, g receipts of native • rass cattle alsobid fair p to he larger than ever before, there ,Would - seem to be' substantial reasons for ;anti- ci ating.comparativelylo)r' i :�and '1»that sort of Punning' which knows p owl ices .beef' find a satisfactory; market for such a vast surplus of wheat, as 25.0,;000,000: bushels: Besides wheat, the '-barley"and' oat; crops are reported almost safe. Their growth.th has been aux uriant and the heads of those' g rains are full- as.well as long:A sue= cession' of heavy storms might hurt them; but they 'are too far advanced to suffer.- much from drought, which present is rune g ,ich at for more`- probable .than ,heavy storios.- Thehay'crop is also safe, The sante may be said of the crops in Canada, which are more than likel yyto turn out well on the. whole anti itis quite probable that those , in the northwestWill be good so that the condition of the agricultural class on this continent -is particularly bright;.and•happy this year. THE BUTTER- I/IARKf T. Farniersare Y apparentl y holding back butter from market, in anticipation of higlMr prices ruling, bit in thiswe think they are unwise, because there is no apparent prospect of the price ad ancin• even during the fall. The g v highrice in the spring was due solely to' the P spring local Armand. Pastures have been good nearly, all summer, and at present are not•bad,. and in England and elsewhere the make of butter is 'unusually large,,' consequently the e butter ise] tobe demand :for export utt r, notaik y • great.. Store keepers and;other,dealers found a fair market, even' at the high prices, all sP g g rig as as the local demand for Cana' long dian cities kept up. That beingnow abun- Ybegin dantl en lied., theY g :begin to find stocks PP rapidly accumulating at the, high prices;;'and naturally "mast begin to 'feel blue over the situation, as unless an unlooked-for ,advance takes place in England, present . ,holdersmust suffer a 'loss of -2 to 3 cents a pound.. Our western butter is always classed at about. 6c. . per pound, less .;than creamery butter, and would then be only marketable for, export, at. about 15c.here ; 16c. in Montreal.:, The fol= lowing paragraph shows the state of the mar- .ket at, Montreal on Tuesday; and ,farmers, slum gntde li©mss yes by he inferences thereof ' " Buttev prices are unchanged. • June. roreatnery'is offering at 20c. to 22c.;` -the larg. eat,,salesof'best fresh -lots were at 221c. Un- lees some relief comes from English orders, 'still lower prices are likely to 'ride. hiippers say that they •can' get' no encouragement across the water, unless at, a reduction of 2 or 3 cents on presentrquotations." • 'Hon 'Mr,, Chapleau,:late Premier of • �. i Quebec; who.has enteredthe. Dominion -Cabinet, is not thought of very highly; as the following paragraph from a:Montreal 'no party paper shows :-" In that sort, of searing which can brazen out any adverse comment• he is the equal; of the foremost, during the reinainderof the year. While some of the Ontario ' ti Onta o Con. rse va ve papers are looking anxiously towards the RaF � Y .. capture of the Local Legislature, at the next : election, there are others' honest enough to: admit that`. the chance is hope- less, ope- 1 ss "as witness the following from e wi the g WinnipegSun, edited b one of the,most Y i -hot in • nr ed ot Conservatives r the sou t y, Mr. Jas. Fahey, who contested North Grey at the last election:— " Out lection:—"Out of the present Conservative repre- geiistation Mr. Meredith could., not con- struetta_Cabitt_elfhat, would not fall to pieces ofits own: weight. At present On- tario is'bopelessly.Reform, r: even the Com. mercial issue, as shown in .the Dominion elections, failing to convert a. majority . of the constituencies. The talisman with which the Mail hopes to turn the tide in Ontario is Mr..Mowat's rebellious attitude on the boundary question, a cry about as powerful as the failure of the last: Arctic expedition to reach the pole." The Mail has been flogging the globe at terriblee rate lately,onacharge o} stealing their special war despatches and publishing`them as original. The charge may may not be true, but it looks as if the Mail wanted 10 make agood advertise- ment more than anything else.: The of fence, if such a thing is. done, is not so serious assome'may.imagine: If the Mail for instance, publishes -a column of svhat. appears as a special despatch, the 'proba- bility is that only about ten or twenty lines of, that was' telegraphedacross the Atlantic, the balance being supplied by men thoroughly conversant' with Eastern affairs, at New York, and, who are employ- ed for the sole purpose of `: padding" or filling out - telegrams • 'of this nature. Every newspaper man knows that a special cable dispatch very limited indeed and P Y , any attempt on thoparLo' either Mail or Globe to snake the public believe : that a' one or twolcolumri artys.le'is'such, is simply a deceptionon the. public. It often hap. pens that the biggest rogue is lie who shouts "stop thief" the loudest. ]low to turn events to his own advantage he has no equal. He throws the province away like a well sucked orange, just when to hold' on any longer would reveal`him 'the niost brilliant who ever made impossible promises to a gullible'populace. OUR LETTER. BOX. The Naw -ERA does not hold'itsell responsible. for the opinions of its correspondents- Letters, are cordi- ally invited from alt who have a grievance or anything of; public interest to discuss. Write on one side of the. paper ; give your name and address as a meals of. au- thent,oation,(not forublication) and be' at briof at the subject, will permit ; and :our, colunuis• w ill always be open to reply to anything appearing under this head. TO1-tY-CTt001t>DNESS. ;To- the Editor of the Clinton, New Era.. DmAa;Stit,—As the voters' list isthe, means by which' elections are lost' and won, the ser. yenta of the municipality of.Goderich town- ship seem to be fully aware of that fact. A more scandalous or crooked to further'party,ends, than is en- closed within the leaves of the pamphlet "call- ed the Goderich township, voters' list, was never seen. This list was intended for the Dominion and local elections, arthe time it was made, but party necessity compelled the use of 1881 list, 'instead of 1882, as intended; This year's voters' list stands goodfor, local elections,- and hence the;crookeduess- of that .N sheet. In polling; division o. 2 it has been fixed to the tune of a dozen votes made up in the following way, young men or boys who are not of the age of 21 years, nor near that age, young men who are practisingmedicine or studying the same are down for Mrs/sees sons, ready and available when necessity re- quires. Some are assessed as tenants, who are hired out for the summer with farmers in our immediate neighborhood;\ who, have no title'. to vote, only to be drilled and used as an army reserve._ We have occupants occu- pying the same position,: then we have, Re- formers who have votes in South and West Huron, for the local elections, who are can- ningly assessed in one andnot represented in the other. Likewise, good old-time Reform- ers, who are left off the roll for•the:sole crime of being such. I think when they see the omission it will stir up. their old Highland blood, and no wonder. Now, Mr. Editor, thele are two parties to blame for this state of affairs, the assessor or "clerk, or both. The one for putting on names he: knew were wrong, or the clerk for omitting;to copy those that were assessed, to the voters' list. Another strange thing is that last spring the assessor got his salary raised from what it was the year mations, was'our council'. aware, when the allowance _wall made, it was to pay for, ma king an elec- tion roll, whichour genuine Toryto use in such times. Sueli an election roll is Worthy of reward. According to Tory preop dent, they ought to be 'decorated with the cross of St. George or knighted, and have for their coat of arms a voters' list emblazoned on their shield, eld,so that ,their posterity could see by what heroic deeds their ancestors had won renown.' I remain, yours truly, - FAra Pier, Goderich township polling division No, 2. WHERE IS .THE BOARD O13 HEALTH To the Editor of the New Eric. DEAD SIx;—If the chairman of the Board of„Health,who is always' ready and willing to do his duty, would juste take a walk down by the drain leading from the post office to the tanneries, ! and pull up on Orange street; just on the large culvert between the two tanneries, and stay one- half hour there, lie. would find something for the Board of Health and the inspector to do. .It is true souse .work has been done•on the drain lately, after the rub the inspector and street committee got last week-, and I will give the street commit- tee another rub now. Better, gentlemen, have' covered in part of the drain :with some of the money spent in grading Joseph street, and especially in removing- -that emovingthat little eyesore of a raise in front of. the member of the street committee's door for Si.John's Ward. Ratepayers' ,; eyes are notalwa3 ys shut; and I;sitbscribe my- self y -self' as one who has got both eyes to see and a nose to smell. Yours truly, Clinton Jul- 3,1 1882, RATEPAYER.', AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 3'0 the Editor of Clinton New Era. Srh,—An item in your last issuestated that a strong effort would be made to make the usual fall show held itt, Clinton an exceptionally good -one, and I observe that Mr. W. Jackson and Mr. Pay bave beentaking subscriptions to the Society. What strikes nie as singular, is the fact that townspeople are' -expected to co ntri bute so much, both directly and'indirectly, to, the success of anything of this charac- ter. The town derives a certain benefit, it is: rue, from asho,w being` held in its: midst, but the most direct benefit is that to the farrier, and I wonder that more of them do.not ;take a more active and zea- lous; interest in them. Without wishing to reflect on the honesty or judgment of farmers, may I be permitted to express the thoughtthat in matters of much less importance'' they display a'keeness and, eagerness' which gives rise to unpleasant inferences. All honor, say I, to both the business men and farmers :who give in support of agricultural societies,, but' I should like to see, more of the latter inte- rested in makingthe exhibition a success. The farmers surrounding this town are'. surelrequai in intelligence and abilityto those of anyother locality, and if they were =a little more. liberal in character, there would be no reason why the Clinton show might not soon rank among the leading ones of the vest' I`:mean no of- fence' to the .farming community, and hope the suggestion here roughly thrown out may be: acted upon to the benefit of all. Please insert the above and oblige A CONSTANT READER. August1y 1882. QUERY. To.tl/e.Edito of elee_Ciin.tan e-tu gtxt Sze,—The following' is an old puzzle, will you please insert it:-Two'men ;met on the road with a +flock of sheep each. Said ,one: ".Give me nine of your -sheep and I` shall have as uiany.as you have:" " 'No," said the other, "give me. nine of yours and L shall have twice as "many as you; have." Will, some,of,your aeaders statehow many :sheep', were in each rock ? and give a rule for find - in, ,lie number ? Your., A Srxl,sCla?Ban.. ---. Clinton, Aug. 1, 1882. • LIGHTNING RODS. - lb the Editor of the Cliizton Neu, Era. Di Ait Sts,. -As my name has been brought into print by .a correspondent, . in your last week's issue, I beg leave in reply to say that, as a -?matter of dollars; and cents. it makes but, little, difference to me; as work on public. buildings ie generally let by tender, and the competition to keen ai to reduce the profits to so'low Ifigure as to render it of no great object,'but ,as .a mutter ofnsafety•to the pro,. pertyand to the lives;of the hundreds cif chil- dren +therein• daily congregated'I.would like tor. Call thenttention'of your correspondent, the public, and especially of the trustees, to the opinions of some who have made the sub- ject a matter of study, and are well qualified to vote thereon'. In a treatise' on the pof lightning propertiesg and atmospheric •electricity,_-;entitledTho Thunder Storm," by Charles : Tomlinson; F. • of• L'o'ndon, page 211, . "he. Says, " A' German scientific writer found,;in 1783, that in the apace of thirty-three years' lightning' had struck three hundr®d.and„eighty-six bell towers; and killed one-hnndred.-and-twenty- oneringers,•besideawounding'' a• much larger number.” In:.3 treatise on EIdctric Pheno- Mena, by:Prof.:John'.M. Mott, of Chicago, ,011,6_ Of: theaableat eloctriniaGE;nf-the day, is quoted a writer representing the popular pre ludices against lightning rods;says, ' Science: has every to dread the thunder bolts.' of Franklin; they attract`destreetion, and houses are far safer, without than.with them Swere they able to "carry off the fluid they -are the. means of attracting,: there would be no dan- ger, but this they are by no means able to do," In -reply to' the above Pref. Mott remarks:• t' These assertions of ignoramuses, appealing, ae' they do, to the fears, of mankind, rether than to their -dispassionate and• sober judg- ment, udowent; have not entirely failed, in. obtaining -that temporary favor-wbick-so-frequently-at-- tends a popular prejudice, promulgated' with- out'reason, and received without proof. The. notion that iightning'rode attract electricity, or are a positive evil, appears to have arisen entirely froni'assumption, and a• partial eon- sideration of . fears, or from superstition, pre- judice„ or unadulterated ignorance, rather than from science or experience." Ho also. says:—"Before the application - of rod to ships;, at least, ninety-seven per cent of the whole number were injured or ;destroyed by lightning; and the loss of life',was fearful ;. duo vessel in eight set on fire,. and the de- struction of • property, immense. Since' -the application of conduotors to-ehips, no person has been killed, or injured by lightning,. on. board a vessel having lightning. rods; nor has any marine'insnrance company ,beeni called np•in to pay a dollar for loss. or damage to vessel or cargo, where the ship hat been sup- plied with eleetrio conductors." ' , I\ •would ask every ratepayer to 'duly con- Sider-the onaide :the above, arid become satiefied as to 'whether this matter is, or is not of wore im- portance, than ns-portance,than the deepening of a drain, -or. the addingto or taking from of a -revs dollars of teachers' salaries aria if your correspon- dent, who signs his name "Another ,;.liiate-, payer," will kindly figure up juet'how many dents .the said lightning rods will increase his taxes (probably .not more than ten cents) I will refund the same to him. 'Y'ottrs, Clinton, Aug. •1, .1882, • Wm. Kart:, Iendid summer Goo BROWN DRESS NMUSLINS, withfancy iflowers and figures, very pretty. BLACK DRESS MUSLINS with white stripes, also flowerecLandg fi ured. GREY .FANCY DRESS ' MUSLINSr nice' � goods. LIGHT HT FANCY F C RESSM NS, a xnagn fi .. US T � i - L cent assortment. BLACi MURIE SASH RIBBONS. I BBONS: Black Morie and Satin Stripe SASH • RIBi BONS. Black Satin andPalle SASH RIBBONS I. FANCY SASH RIBBONS. --Bea ; c Watered Prints. PR,2NTS ..lkW e rets.. Black embossed Prints, new ,:.. styles, choice goods. -New- Dark Prints, nobby.• .. meat �novelti e i -1 :s G 1 LADIES SHAWLS for afternoon and. evening'wear. - i Black and ,colored BU NITN GS,plain and figured. ed. EAT VALUE IN- GR BLACK CASHMERES., PARASOLS in immense variety, cheap. • A, special , lot of -over 500 yds. BLACKi, SILKS, • the finest oo danci best . estueever 1w va `,:shown ri' in - town. A large 1 of of 'new stripe Dress' Silks, in many lovely Y. shad es, very cheap'. _ _ : ' . _. _: • . Corsets for the i ra llioa, all. leading et lei. Piles of LISLE, LACE, SILK and KID 'i E Gov s. PiIeS of CARPETS; {UPTA I NS DAnzAsitO and RUcs. I I- leeSof COTTONand ALB I B R GGAN HOSE'. Piles of goods; l r estassortment; at; solus este, varlet choice P Yy, Prices are.ri h ::m t Competition not feared butWLS for goods. met m every department at the ;, , .. •. .. - .: . Great Irnpoting Hoxse o f' The Dr Goods Pa,lziea. Y JOHN H J E N; S O ODG , CLINT euro n� 7 Invite. attention to -tele `:following lines of .goods All Wool Dress ''.roods. nd for a h ' er , 1' �ka o edC s na� es ac C h �. d es •�� W to d to L �r hi an r a W to Colo ed vein` Irl • hite and Printed La W wn S to 2 4 6 bu �d Kid G yes tt Blk &;Co on. s La T e11in "e Curtains' ui t ow ass This department; under r the management ems nt of J. C: been ---tt `_ - S �a-Gu e �t to-none--as--a- ��co�d a e -a a great success. HATS & CAPS and GENT'S S 1Y� ISSIr NG S . nooTs SITOMS_ ► E7IES. 9rockery &Class COATS & $0,'• r. . cost. at N ON.